GROWING SUGAR BEETS IN CALIFORNIA. 
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The average distance to the loading station was 1.33 miles. The 
shortest average distance hauled, 1.02 miles, was found in the Salinas 
li strict, and the longest, 1.76 miles, in the Oxnard area. (Table 
XX.) One hundred and forty-two men reported hauling with 
horsepower, and of this number 47 per cent hauled less than 1 mile 
and 13 per cent more than 2 miles. Forty per cent hauled an aver- 
age of 1.56 miles. Those who hauled an average distance of 0.67 
of a mile did so at an average cost of 14 cents per ton less than the 
men who hauled over 2 miles, or an average of 2.83 miles. (See figs. 
23 and 24.) 
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Fig. 22. — Hauling sugar beets from field to factory with a tractor and a train of 
four wagons.' 
Table XX. — Cost of hauling as influenced by the distance hauled. 
Distance. 
Average 
distance. 
Number 
of 
records. 
Per cent 
of total 
records. 
Labor 
cost per 
ton. 
Miles 
0.67 
1.56 
2.83 
66 
57 
19 
47 
40 
13 
$0.26 
.32 
.40 
VARIATIONS IN FIELD PRACTICE. 
While standard methods of handling a crop may be followed quite 
closely by many growers in a given district, certain variations are 
inevitable because of differences in soil, or in the previous treatment 
of the field, or in the time when the work of preparation is begun, 
